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Imagining Satan

By AAN Staff
march 17, 2003  03:02 pm
Imagining Satan
In 1988, the No. 3 law enforcement officer in Thurston County, Wash., was accused by his own children of sexual assault and Satanic ritual abuse. Paul Ingram, "hypnotized and brainwashed," began to confess to the crimes in the following months. He "remembered" belonging to a cult of judges, doctors and lawyers who sexually abused children and sacrificed more than 25 babies. Ingram eventually pleaded guilty to six counts of third-degree rape and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. There was never any physical evidence of such crimes, and the case was debunked by psychologists, forensic anthropologists and investigative reporters. Tom Grant looks into the twisted tale and concludes the case was a witch hunt from the beginning. Ingram, who will soon be released from prison after serving his sentence, is even now labeled a sex offender -- highly likely to re-offend.
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